2007-02-14 04:07:49 · 9 answers · asked by badboy 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No. That is completely false.
What you might be getting confused with is near-light speed travel.
When a person is travelling near light speed, time, as he perceives it, is passing just as it always is. But in reality it is passing slower for him. His perception of time is slower.
But everyone else who is not travelling at near-light speed will be perceiving time as passing faster (relative to the man travelling at near light speed). So they will age more quickly than the man travelling at near light speed.
Though this difference would be small unless he travels at nera light speed for a long period of time.
2007-02-14 04:13:53 · answer #1 · answered by Michael Dino C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi!
your question is based on the TIME DILATION effect of the special theory of relativity. That is, if a person travels in a speed comparable to the velocity of light, then the time as we measure looks lesser when compared with a person who is not travelling.
The exact problem is called the "Twin problem"
there are two twins. one starts on a journey to space in a vehicle which travels in the speed of light. the other stays in earth. if the first twin returns to earth after 20 earth years, he would be younger than the twin who stayed on earth. because time travels slower for the space bound twin. thus they say that if u travel to space,your age will be reduced.
2007-02-14 04:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by astro vino 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I think what you are referring to is known as the Twins paradox. What we do know is that time is not absolute, it is relative. What will happen is this. Take twins, one stays on earth, the other travels in a spaceship. The spaceship will travel at very high speeds which means the relative time will be different to that experienced by the twin who stays behind. When the spaceship returns to earth,the twin who has been traveling will have experienced less time, he will be younger than the other. Hard to fathom, isn't it? They start at the same time and end at the same time but have actually lived a different number of hours. That is because time is not absolute.
2007-02-14 04:15:07 · answer #3 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya we travelled in space the age will be defferent compare with another person that mean compare humens on earth. accaording to twins paredox for example two brothers is there oneperson age20say X,another person age also 20sayY. Xis doing job and staying here and Yis travelled on space ofter 20 years X person age will be 40(according to our earths moving time).anether person that mean Yage will be less then x person because Y person travelled on light speed that is the reason
2007-02-14 18:23:40 · answer #4 · answered by akhil a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but the phenomenon you are referring to is called time dilation and is predicted in Einstein's theories of Relativity.
Essentially if the astronauts were to travel close to the speed of light, time would appear to pass normally on the Earth and space shuttle, but the people on Earth would age faster (i.e., time would move faster).
2007-02-14 04:19:11 · answer #5 · answered by accurrent103 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, But if you travel at the speed of light when your return you will not have aged, but several hundred years will have passed on earth.
2007-02-14 04:13:02 · answer #6 · answered by October 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,because if we travel at closer to light speed we gain time that means our time is longer than on earth.which means reduced age as several years must have passed on earth.
2007-02-14 04:44:43 · answer #7 · answered by ks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
Your age is measured from the day you were born,
until the day that you die. Nobody counts what you did in between.
2007-02-14 10:24:17 · answer #8 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ur age wont reduce, but u wont age as fast as evryone else earth and hence, be younger!
2007-02-14 06:13:37 · answer #9 · answered by jello 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋